1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... the fact that despite the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that forced the desegregation of public facilities, the schools in New York City was still segregated racially9. After the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the subsequent 1965 Voting Rights Act, Rustin had begun to hopefully create an alliance of sorts between the Civil Rights movement and the Democratic Party and those of the working class. With one of his proteges, Tom ... Kahn, Rustin wrote an article called "From Protest to Politics" in which he argues that the desegregation of public places such a...
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